[FYI] (Fwd) FC: Sen. Hollings introduces SSSCA -- now renamed the CB

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

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Date sent:      	Thu, 21 Mar 2002 19:48:20 -0500
From:           	Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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Subject:        	FC: Sen. Hollings introduces SSSCA -- now renamed the CBDTPA
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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51245,00.html

   Copy Protection Bill Introduced
   By Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)

   3:20 p.m. March 21, 2002 PST
   WASHINGTON -- Sen. Fritz Hollings has fired the first shot in the
   next legal battle over Internet piracy.

   The Democratic senator from South Carolina finally has introduced
   his copy protection legislation, ending over six months of
   anticipation and sharpening what has become a heated debate between
   Hollywood and Silicon Valley.

   The bill, called the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television
   Promotion Act (CBDTPA), prohibits the sale of any kind of
   electronic device -- unless that device includes copy-protection
   standards to be set by the federal government.

   Translation: Future MP3 players, PCs, and handheld computers will
   no longer let you make all the copies you want.

   "A lack of security has enabled significant copyright piracy which
   drains America's content industries to the tune of billions of
   dollars every year," Hollings, the powerful chairman of the Senate
   Commerce committee, said in a statement on Thursday.

   [...]



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